In 2004 Jerry Fowler, former staff director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience, traveled to Chad to meet refugees who were driven from their homes in Sudan, their villages torched, and their ...

In this episode, Chief Acquisitions Curator Judy Cohen shares items from the recently acquired Katz Ehrenthal Collection. Judy explains how this collection of antisemitic materials, some around 500 ...

Beate Meyer is Senior Researcher at the Institute of the History of German Jews in Hamburg, Germany. She received a Ph.D. in political science, and M.A. and B.A. equivalents in political science, ...

The first day of Chanukah fell on December 23, just 42 days after the infamous “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht). That night most of Vienna’s synagogues were torched, Jewish stores were looted ...

Dr. Chigbo Anyaduba received his PhD in Literature from the University of Manitoba (Canada), as well as a Master’s degree in English from Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria). As the J.B. and Maurice ...

Professor Matthew Hockenos is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Skidmore College in New York. He received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in history from New York University and a B.A.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide (SCPG) seeks applications for a fellowship to assess risks of mass atrocities in Mozambique. The Early ...

For Syrians who long suffered under the Assad regime’s oppression and brutality, its collapse brought forth a flood of emotions. Today Syrians are engaged in the work of rebuilding their country and ...

In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that "a piece of paper with a stamp on it" was "the difference between life and death." The Unwanted is the intimate ...

Is my donation going to be immediately publicly accessible or displayed on exhibit? In telling the story of the Holocaust we depend on a large collection, of which only a small percentage can ever be ...

Christopher J. Probst received a Ph.D. in history at Royal Holloway, University of London, an M.A. cum laude in Biblical studies from the Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, and a B.A. in ...

Under Mr. Lerman’s leadership, the Museum began to serve as a voice of conscience by establishing the Committee on Conscience to speak out about contemporary genocide. His relentless efforts and ...